Eccentric Flower:199904/cards and cookies
From Eccentric Flower
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april twelfth cards and cookies This is absolutely correct in all particulars, and you can tell everyone I said so. After my two rapid-fire postcards on Saturday I didn't write anything else. On Sunday afternoon we saw Cookie's Fortune, and then I acquired a new sound card and a 3D accelerator for my game-playing computer, and so I spent the rest of Sunday night, ahem, "testing" the new capabilities of that system. Which is to say that I played my second nonstop night of Lands of Lore III, which I bought on Thursday as therapy - remember, I said I was having a low-body-image day Thursday? Buying clothes is good, but the kinds of clothes I enjoy shopping for - dresses - are not the kinds of clothes I can actually wear anywhere. So I buy computer games instead. Ironically, buying the computer game actually made me feel lower for a short while, because one of the things I resent is walking into the mall and have people look at me, appraise me, like they know I'm heading straight for the computer games. I usually am, but I dislike that pigeonhole. Bah. I got over it. The sound card was promised as a birthday or Christmas present from Nonelvis, I forget which, but anyway it's finally redeemed. The sound card which came with the computer was so horrid that many games wouldn't run - anytime it tried to do more than three voices at a time, the sound would skip like a broken record and the computer would hang. That's all fixed now. I hope. I haven't tried it yet with one of the games I had to put in the closet because it just wouldn't play, so the acid test is yet to come. The 3D accelerator - which I paid for, not her - is a reluctant purchase. I have an upper limit on how much I'm willing to spend on a computer which exists only to play games. Ironically, that's the machine that always requires new technology! I do all my writing, email, et cetera, on a 120 mHz Macintosh with old software, and it suits me fine. With games, the box requirements leave me in the dust every three years. That's about how often I end up with a new PC - hence the spending limit; why invest heavily in something that'll be obsolete in thirty-six months? Anyway, I bought it because new games are finally beginning to require it. LucasArts is making their latest titles so that they won't run without one. Bah again. At least LOL III looks really spiffy now - and Nonelvis will get to fly her X-Wing fighter (that's what you do in the latest LucasArts title, fly various craft from the movies, and I've seldom seen her so enthusiastic about a game). Oh, and Cookie's Fortune is just wonderful, although I can't recommend it to everyone. The pacing is deliberate - the movie seems to be saying, "Hey, I'm telling this story my way, don't rush me." So if you like seeing chase scenes, forget it. Also, it's more fun if you're a Southerner. This movie reminded me more of Faulkner than anything else - a small town with a host of eccentric characters buzzing around a single dire event like fruit flies at an apple core. More later today, I think. I have another postcard in my head but I'm not ready to type it yet.
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